Spirit of Leadership

PURPOSE AND PASSION have labored and toiled and have often gone with out sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. Why did Paul give a list of problems and tribulations as part of the proof that he was a genuine apostle? He was saying, in effect, “If the vision and assignment I received wasn’t real, do you think I’d go through all those hard ships?” Paul paid a price for his purpose, but his passion enabled him to do it. You are passionate and you are real if you stay steady under pressure. You know your vision is from God when you are still at it once the storm clears. Leadership is born when one discovers his purpose for being and commits to pursue it at all costs. If you find that you are bored, then you have not yet discovered your purpose because passion is the driving force in life.

Sow a thought, reap a belief. Sow a belief, reap an attitude, Sow an attitude, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

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